Former Tamil National Alliance Northern Provincial Council member, T Ravikaran, marked 11 years since the Mullivaikkal genocide by performing a flower tribute over the Nanthi Kadal Lagoon.
Ravikaran honoured the lives lost in the massacre, this morning on May 18th.
Students once again lit lamps at the University of Jaffna this morning, in remembrance of the tens of thousands of victims of the Mullivaikkal massacres.
Despite efforts by Sri Lankan authorities to halt remembrance efforts today, Tamils across the North-East lit flames and laid flowers to commemorate the tens of thousands who were massacred by the Sri Lankan state eleven years ago.
Tamil political organisation, Tamil Solidarity, held a webinar called “Mullivaikkal Day 2020” to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the Mullivaikkal massacre.
As we near 11 years since the Mullivaikkal Tamil genocide, we are still searching for our family members, families of the disappeared in the North and East, said in a statement.
“May 18 marks another dark day in the lives of Tamil people. This day memorialises the Sri Lankan state’s long history of ethnic cleansing, during the war.
It is an emotional day that Tamils all over the world mourn; it is a day of defiance and grief. A day where the Sri Lanka government and army opposed Tamil rights and unleashed outrageous acts of human rights violations against Tamils.
Sri Lankan police announced that a court order has been obtained barring any events from taking place at that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and Uthayan newspaper offices in Jaffna or at the home of the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) leader, just hours before commemorations events were due to take place marking Tamil Genocide Day.
A Sri Lankan judge has issued a 14-day isolation order against eleven senior figures from the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) this evening, just hours party members were to mark Tamil Genocide Day on Monday.
The notice, signed byJaffna magistrate Anthony Saamy Peter Paul cites the risk of coronavirus to order the senior figures into isolation.
The Sri Lankan High Commission in London has lashed out at The Guardian this week, accusing the paper of “a sinister attempt to propagate the ideology of a proscribed terrorist outfit” after it published a travel quiz on islands around the world this week.
“From the Hebrides to Antipodes … how are you on islands, isles and islets – archipelago-go-go or just no-no-no?,” read the quiz, which gets published every Friday on The Guardian’s travel section.
The Sri Lankan High Commission was clearly the latter.
The Batticaloa Municipal Council held a moment’s silence in tribute to those massacred at Mullivaikkal this week, as part of commemorations taking place around the world to mark Tamil Genocide Week.
As part of a series marking 11 years since the atrocities of Mullivaikkal, a Tamil woman shares her reflections on the experiences and the struggles she faces.
I am in grade 10 now. I want to score enough to be able to enter Advance Level soon. I love the subject history. I was four years old when I lost my leg, I am 15 years old now. My studies depend on the income we get from the coconut grove.
Kalaiyarasi Kanagalingam, a now 15-year-old survivor of Mullivaikkal, spoke about the last memory of her father and the importance of Tamil genocide recognition at a conference hosted at the Houses of Parliament in October 2019.
May 17th, 2009 was the last time she saw her father.
Several checkpoints have been set up in and around Mullivaikkal by the Sri Lankan police and military, as Tamil genocide remembrance day on May 18 draws closer.
Former Tamil National Alliance Northern Provincial Council member, T Ravikaran, marked 11 years since the Mullivaikkal genocide by performing a flower tribute over the Nanthi Kadal Lagoon.
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